Systems Development

Since the company’s inception, we have used our experience in developing and implementing IT systems to help our clients achieve their goals with a low risk approach. We are proud of what we have accomplished for our clients – 100% of our engagements have resulted in successful system delivery. This success is based on the application of the proven, CMMI Maturity Level 3 System Development Methodology (SDM). When appropriate, we apply the customized methodology, which is based on the widely-used Rational Unified Process (RUP). RUP is flexible in that it is a methodology, not a specific tool, and allows the project approach and associated artifacts to be adjusted for the scope of the effort. Some projects may require a comprehensive Requirements Management tool such as Rational’s RequisitePro while for other projects a simple spreadsheet is sufficient. The benefit to our clients is that the methodology supports either case to adapt to different levels of efforts, and a variety of software tools are also available to implement the methodology. Avineon employs the full Rational suite of products internally.

Avineon’s approach is to use our full SDM for projects we work on independently, and to integrate with our client’s SDM when working in a team environment. This ensures that all process artifacts, including documentation, are in a form consistent with the client’s standards and have value going forward regardless of who maintains and enhances the systems in the future.

For our government clients, we integrate over-arching requirements such as alignment with Federal Enterprise Architecture recommendations, applicable statutory and regulatory standards such as Section 508 accessibility standards, NIST Security guidelines, and agency Enterprise Architecture (EA) standards. For both government and commercial clients we consider both functional requirements and technical influences such as Service Oriented Architectures and Security requirements.